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Nano – the home stretch

Nov26

As of this morning, my nano total wordcount:

48313 / 50000 words. 97% done!

The Addergoole, Year 9, Second Quarter portion:

25283 / 25000 words. 101% done!

And the last line of that – “Thus, it is my sad but requisite duty to apologize to you for the danger this school has, through our failure, placed you in.”

For a moment, the spell she had on the audience broke.

And the Rin & Girey half:

23000 / 25000 words. 92% done!

And last night’s last lines:
“If I had captured you? Do you think about that? If you’d been over my saddle, if I’d dragged you south to the islands with me? If you’d been my war-bride?”

“Yes.” She laid her answer out as starkly as she could: honest, and with her fear un-hidden. “Yes. And I don’t like it.”

“But you expect me to like being your prisoner?”

“No, not at all.”

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Nanoo Nanoo

Nov19

Stealing the idea from [personal profile] lynn_einin

35000 / 50000 words. 70% done!

Of that, 25,283 is on the Addergoole Year 9 novel, and 9717 on the Rin & Girey Complete Rewrite.

Last line of last night:

“The Congress of Nankita has at least three positions where that would work, although one of them would require you to be very flexible.”

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25,000 (and six!)

Nov12

Thanks in large part to a nanowrimo meetup yesterday morning-afternoon, I managed to reach 25,000 last night!

The last line of this part of my nano project:

It was fun watching his Keeper blush. Quintus didn’t have much time to enjoy it, though; just then the room fell suddenly silent, and he was overtaken with an urge to stare at the stage and the Director.

I had a lot of fun last night with people asking me questions about my characters to help me round them out, so I’m going to continue it here.

I have characters one through 23. Ask me something about them, or something about one or two or three of them!

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Nanoo nanoo: Favorite Lines

Nov2

Sooo I decided to try to push two projects closer to completion this month: Addergoole Year 9 for half the month, and Rin & Girey re-write completion for the other half.

Last line of the first day yesterday:

“Or we could try oral. I might not bite.”

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50,000 (+92)! (and giraffes)

Jun25

/falls over/

Last night, I hit 50,092, also finishing Chapter 12 – one semester of Addergoole Year 9 roughed out!

Now I get to write other things again!

Yesterday, I posted a list of settings which had been suggested for today’s Mini-Giraffe call. Right now, Stranded, Fairy Town, and Unicorn/Factory are in a three-way tie.

I will post the Giraffe Call when
(1) One of these gains a two-vote lead
or
(2) 4:55 p.m. EST arrives.

I’m also taking suggestions for a sub-theme. I.e., “Addergoole, summer camp” (Which will be the theme of July’s mini-call).

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What’s Lyn Been Doing?

Jun22

Not being on the computer much, that’s for sure!

State of Nano: As of this morning, I have written 45,378 on my Addergoole, Year 9, 1st Semester piece. That, with previously written material (over 11.5K words, wow!) brings it to 11 chapters and some mini-interludes, which means that I’ll finish 12 chapters in just over 50K. Hopefully by the end of the weekend.

State of the garden: we bought another pepper plant (shoshito) and another tomato plant (pear-cherry). Also a cilantro, finally.

The squash are having fun, stretching out finally. The onions are being onions, ditto the leeks.

I have bean sprouts! And pea sprouts! and radish sprouts! (The sort in the garden dirt; I also have sprouts growing in a jar in the kitchen).

And last night I started planting a bag of salt potatoes that had gone to sprout.

State of the everything else: T has been cleaning out the loading ramp that came with the house – essentially a dirt ramp framed in railroad ties. We plan to use it as a planting bed.

After we get the safe out of it. O_O

And the dresser is very nearly done! I have to decide if I want to sand, smooth, and then 4th-coat the top, the sides and drawers are done, and the knobs will get here this week.

And … that explains, I think, the lack of anything else lately. If I owe you Giraffe Words, I apologize. When I hit 50 K, I will start working on the giraffeyness again!

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Where has all the Blogging Gone?

Jun14

I have been remiss in blogging lately! If you have noticed the camp-nano posts, you can easily see one reason why – I am trying hard to get 50K done by the 20th (the 21st is our 10-year wedding anniversary).

The other reason? Summer!

This weekend I finally got a portion of the garden put in – planted 7 tomato plants in 3 varieties, 7 hot pepper plants in 4 varieties (6 of 2 more to plant), basil in 2 varieties, sage, oregano, and beans. I weeded the carrot patch (apologies to Anne Bishop readers) and laid down weed cloth over the squash (well, around them), too.

And I got another coat of poly on the dresser and started painting it!

In terms of nano, I’m looking to get most of the first semester of Addergoole Year 9 completed: the series will cover, in 52 weeks, one year of the Addergoole school through the eyes of the twenty-some members of the Ninth Cohort.

Also: We got two new kittens. Their names are Oligarchy and Theocracy and they are 12 weeks old and beautiful.

And a link: Finally, a Home where you can enjoy the Post-apoc.

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Camp Nano

Jun1

I am doing Camp Nano! (I’m aldersprig over there, too).

I’m doing the first ~50,000 of the Addergoole: Year Nine serial, and, as such, I am soliciting for one or two alpha-readers to help me take 50,000 of scribbles and kick them into the first semester of the serial.

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